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March 6, 2017 at 5:12 pm #136263NewlifestartsnowParticipant
So to make it short, i went online to Match.com…many guys messaged me but one stuck out. We talked for about 2 weeks before meeting and we both fell into each other pretty fast.
When we met however, he looked a lot different in person than in his picture. He told me i was even more beautiful in person but in my head i knew i could not say the same! Now, he was a perfect gentleman, he was not weird or rude. But the texting chemistry we had was just not there in person, and on top of that i was not physically attracted to him at all.
I never give guys a second chance because in my opinion if i dont feel it, i wont feel it later. So i went back and forth on this one and finally decided to “let him go” before he got his hopes up even higher. I let him know kindly that although he was a great guy, i just did not see the connection but that i hope he would find someone and he deserved the best.
So fast forward 2 days, i kept thinking about emotional chemistry vs physical chemistry and if one was more important for me than the other. I came to a realization that i do want some physical chemistry on some level, but i rather have emotional chemistry (which is what we had) So i sent him a message that i was wrong about this, and perhaps we could try another date, otherwise no hard feelings, and worst comes to worst we could end up as friends.
Now, i know i hurt him, and confused him but he seems to “proud”, i know he cares for me because after one message i wrote he wrote like 10 to me. He really loved the idea about me going to med school and how smart i am and how driven and ambitious i am….surprisingly though he threw this on my face and assumed i would never make time for him and that i was busy working..basically he judged me (yea i know like i did his looks) and even when i explained myself over and over it was never enough.
He said he doesn’t wanna end this and after i explained myself he said sorry it was a misunderstanding on my part…5 min later i get a message that we should indeed be friends….
honestly, i feel there could potentially be something here, so much has happened in just 2 weeks, i feel like we really really connect and i know i turned him down at first but i did it out of concern for him because i knew it would hurt him more for me to reject him after dating him longer than sooner, but i wanted to still see if it could work…im really bummed now, we will never know!
Guys did i mess this up? but i mean i explained why i had said what i said ( 2 years ago i broke up with someone and this still effects me) hes not perfect either…no one is…guys say they love you so much and when you make a mistake its over…when they make a mistake girls will beg ! help me please…can i even fix this???
March 6, 2017 at 7:11 pm #136279AnonymousGuestDear Penelope Jones:
I don’t understand what it is you are trying to fix. There was online communication with this guy and one date, correct? You rejected him after the one date, then changed your mind, suggested to him (what, I didn’t understand) and his response was (what, I didn’t understand).
And again, about what you are trying to fix: can you state clearly what it is?
anita
March 6, 2017 at 7:40 pm #136305NewlifestartsnowParticipanti had a bad break up 2 years ago and in some ways i still have some issues….so my online date was moving to fast, and instead of telling him i also moved fast with him because it felt “right”.
now, when we met in person, i was not attracted to him physically, so i told him that i did not see a connection between us in person, that our chemistry was better online then offline….
then i realized that one date was probably not enough and that maybe i should give it another chance, so i asked him what he thought about proceeding to a second date and seeing if we were indeed a good match…
then he went back and forth changing his mind. he said he really likes me but doesnt know if after what i said he could ever see me again. then he says yes i can see you, then 5 seconds later he says we should just be friends
March 6, 2017 at 7:42 pm #136311NewlifestartsnowParticipanti know i messed up by coming to conclusions, but he made it seem like he really really liked me, and now to just give up this easily for a comment i made which i already explained myself..i just really believe now that if we would have tried we could have been…
i also told him about how im struggling with my past relationship but that im working on it and getting better, he seems to have a problem with this as well (as if we all dont have some sort of issue from our past) and he has a problem with me wanting to go to meds school!
March 6, 2017 at 7:54 pm #136315AnonymousGuestDear Penelope Jones:
After the first date you sent him the message that you ” just did not see the connection but that i hope he would find someone and he deserved the best.”- this is a powerful rejecting message: “just did not see the connection”. It is tough to undo this message.
If I was you, I would give up on this man. Your message to him was definite, powerful and his response is definite as well, he took the rejection as clearly as it was presented to him.
match is a major dating site- I wonder if plenty of fish is still in operation (it was a free online dating site years ago)- make other connections, update your profile, edit your requirements of a match (clarify to yourself the emotional vs physical chemistry issue). Learn from this experience.
anita
March 6, 2017 at 8:11 pm #136321NewlifestartsnowParticipantRight i understand, i did however explained to him why i said that and where i was coming from, which was from a toxic relationship..i guess im just beating myself up in the head now, it kills me that we will never know..but wouldnt you want to give it a try with someone you think would be the one? isnt this risk worth taking?
March 7, 2017 at 12:15 pm #136649AnonymousGuestDear Penelope Jones:
Maybe if you had a longer, in-person relationship with a man, then it will make sense for him to consider your after thoughts about what you expressed to the man. But it was a short, online, mostly communication and so your rejection message means more.
It is also possible that even if he had a longer term, in person relationship with you, he would still not re-consider following a rejection. I don’t know him.
I hope you can let it go. It could be that you are motivated to hold o to his unwillingness to reconsider because of previously being “unforgiven” for mistakes, or so…
anita
March 7, 2017 at 5:15 pm #136685NewlifestartsnowParticipantok, but he basically said he did not want to end this, and then he said that it was best to be friends like i had mentioned earlier on in our text messages….so say i really wanted to attempt to try this again..how can i do that with out begging, how can i make him understand that i do like him and that i just made a mistake in saying that?
March 7, 2017 at 7:21 pm #136801AnonymousGuestDear Penelope Jones:
Accept the friends suggestion, and develop an online/in-person friendship. Maybe it will develop and change to an honest, respectful, intimately loving relationship that will serve the two of you well.
anita
March 7, 2017 at 8:09 pm #136991NewlifestartsnowParticipantThank you sooo much! we are back to texting, taking things slow, and seeing where it leads us to 🙂 thank you sooo much Anita!!!
March 7, 2017 at 8:23 pm #136997AnonymousGuestYou are welcome, Penelope Jones. I wish the two of you well. Post again, anytime.
anita
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